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Henry Mance

@henrymance.ft.com

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UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance

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@henrymance.ft.comJun 13, 2026, 7:15 AM Pinned

FIFA's Gianni Infantino speaks many languages but feels sadly misunderstood. So I'm pleased to present some translations of his deepest thoughts as.ft.com/r/67bb6b41-6...

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@henrymance.ft.comOct 12, 2026, 7:33 AM

"Barrister Andrew Mitchell KC, an expert in financial services law, said Panorama's evidence showed the scheme was 'straightforward' tax evasion and 'it couldn't be more blatant'." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@samd.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:28 AMReposted by @henrymance.ft.com

oh come on

Jean-Luc Mélenchon • @JLMelenchon
X.com
© Translated from French by Grok
Who will do organic farming?
We need to recruit 400,000 farmers. We will raise their level of preparedness.
By developing organic farming, we will earn billions.
The billions we will no longer spend on treating diabetes or cancer.
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@henrymance.ft.comOct 11, 2026, 6:39 PM

Several more months/ years of this

@henrymance.ft.comOct 11, 2026, 4:55 PM

Man City such a good team - will be hard to beat in next season's Championship

@henrymance.ft.comOct 11, 2026, 2:38 PM

10/10 parking, no notes

@robfordmancs.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:49 PMReposted by @henrymance.ft.com

Those who were old enough to vote in 2016 but didn’t also now break heavily Remain. So three forces all steadily pulling electorate in same direction. The politics which makes sense in a 52/48 nation may not make sense in a 40/60 nation. And we are 40/60 nation now.

@henrymance.ft.comOct 10, 2026, 11:13 AM

And Madrid is a right-leaning city!

@henrymance.ft.comOct 10, 2026, 9:00 AM

"... and so bucolic."

@henrymance.ft.comOct 10, 2026, 8:58 AM

"But sheep farming is so traditional..."

Sheep are domesticated mouflon. Their pointed hooves, shaped over aeons for rocky, dry terrain, are simply not built for boggy British hillsides. "It's like wearing stilettos at a festival", someone once quipped. Many of our native upland grasses are rich in silica and abrasive, and as sheep walk through them, the coarse blades lacerate the skin between their splayed hooves. The wounds get infected. The results are a cluster of conditions, footrot, contagious digital dermatitis, toe abscesses, all painful, all extremely common, lumped together under the bland word lameness, which undersells quite how agonising they are. The standard preventative treatment is a footbath of formaldehyde derivatives, a substance corrosive enough to carry three separate hazard warnings on the drum, which then washes off the open hill to poison our rivers and streams. Moreover, the antiparasitic drugs routinely administered to sheep is a major contributor to the insect apocalypse with effects that ripple through the food web, depleting the birds and small mammals that depend on them.
@henrymance.ft.comOct 10, 2026, 8:57 AM

This is a brilliant piece about the ecological - and animal welfare - cost of sheep farming bengoldsmith.substack.com/p/the-sheep-...

@henrymance.ft.comOct 10, 2026, 7:21 AM

Maybe less useful than a vox pop

@henrymance.ft.comOct 10, 2026, 7:20 AM

"Look, if it weren't for the problems in the Middle East, and the supply chain choke-ups, we'd be back playing the kind of [fuel] prices we were paying before the whole Iran situation started." Thanks for that genius insight, former Trump advisor talking on Radio 4.

@xelahart.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:37 PMReposted by @henrymance.ft.com

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@pickardje.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:26 PMReposted by @henrymance.ft.com

FT exclusive:

the coup against Sir Ed Davey has begun...

www.ft.com/content/523f...

@drsimevans.carbonbrief.orgOct 9, 2026, 6:00 AMReposted by @henrymance.ft.com

FACTCHECK: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder The Tory "Right Way" booklet makes an erroneous claim about the cost of cutting emissions, possibly taken from a Jan26 thinktank report, and deffo the most idiotic error I've seen for a while 🧵

@henrymance.ft.comOct 8, 2026, 7:47 PM

You're abolsitely right--my last answer was *misleading*. as.ft.com/r/0ea04572-d...

@henrymance.ft.comOct 8, 2026, 4:06 PM

His face says no

@henrymance.ft.comOct 8, 2026, 4:02 PM

Rough times for Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, who since being taken into US custody appears to have undergone breast enhancement

@henrymance.ft.comOct 8, 2026, 2:01 PM

👌

@henrymance.ft.comOct 8, 2026, 2:01 PM

X is always worse than you think

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